Low GI Atta and the Festive Blood Sugar Spike Nobody Talks About: Why Two Brothers India Farms' Khapli Atta Belongs on Your Diwali Plate
Nov 05, 2026
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], November 5: Every Diwali, the same advice appears in newspapers, WhatsApp forwards and clinics. Eat fewer sweets. Choose dry fruit over barfi. Skip the second gulab jamun. The advice is sound and strangely incomplete. It treats blood sugar as something that happens at the dessert table, when in reality it is shaped, meal after meal, by the largest component of the plate: the staple.